‘I just longed for the train to hit me’

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Warren Aspinall was, in his words, a loser - in life and at the bookies. Late one night last Christmas he sat on the railway tracks near his Hampshire home and waited for a train to take all his troubles away.

“I just longed for the train to hit me. I wanted it all to end. I heard it coming, but the train driver sounded his horn,” he said. “I suddenly pictured my two lovely kids, stepchildren, mum and dad and my fianc?e Karen and thought, ‘What am I doing?’ I just got out of the way as the train whizzed